Health Law Waiver

by Editor
December 20, 2013 at 9:26 am

https://www.smartertimes.com/1088/health-law-waiver

The Times has a front-page news article about the Obama administration's decision to allow individuals facing cancellation of their health insurance to buy catastrophic policies that don't meet ObamaCare standards and to avoid any penalties for being uninsured in 2014.

It would have been a better story if it explained where the administration gets the legal authority to make this change. Otherwise, it looks like just the latest example of what Christopher Demuth described in the Weekly Standard recently:

Obamacare is introducing a new form of government​—​improvisational government, characterized by continuous ad hoc revisions of statutory law by executive decree. This is a reversion to a primitive form that long antedates our Constitution and rule-of-law traditions. Transported to the modern world, it leaves the private sector in a state of constant uncertainty and subjection.